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Tyler O. Walters,Associate Director, Technology & Resource ServicesLibrary & Information Center, Georgia Institute of Technology
For NSF Site Visit to MIT, February 8 2010
To establish a system of federated, distributed data repositories. (GT: recognizes need for this research infrastructure)
Shared background with MIT, DSpace development since 2003
Collaborate on data curation research and services, start with neurosciences and biosciences
GT is committed to advancing its data curation program (created “research data librarian” position)
GT/GSU Center for Advanced Brain Imaging (CABI)
http://www.cabiatl.com/CABI/ (Chris Rordan, Director)
CABI = 27 PIs / faculty + 35-40 researchers, Center holds ca. 120 TB
Neuroscience: leading example of a domain that will curate its data in a diffuse fashion; hence, university-level solutions will become significant
fMRI brain studies -- Formats: DICOM, NIfTI, and EEG numeric data
Work with Prof. Paul Corballis: http://psychology.gatech.edu/corballislab/
Data Dissemination: publisher rules vary -- researchers desire linking e-publishing activities with final data, however, they struggle with how best to enact primary-secondary source relationship
2007-09: Library Data Curation Work Group Interviewed researchers about data practices/needs, collected interview
data
2009-10: Research Data Project Librarian & Workgroup Continue assessments of faculty data practices (using DAF)
Library’s Digital Development Team Assessing & implementing technology infrastructure for data curation
Core systems for data curation Sun StorageTek 2540 disk arrays / SL 500 Tape Library / Sun SAM server &
ZFS Work with MIT technology stack for data curation Extended storage and preservation services (external partners, e.g.
MetaArchive, Chronopolis, consider new DuraCloud service)
MIT: Martinos Imaging Center / GT: Ctr. for Advanced Brain Imaging
Synergies in data curation to advance science through data sharing, publishing, and preservation
The GT Team: Library: data curator, storage/network manager, programmer,
repository librarian, psychology librarian, AD for technology (Walters)
OIT: director of infrastructure and architecture (Chen)
CABI: Prof. Corballis, graduate student
Advisors: Prof. David Bader, Exec. Director, High-Performance Computing
Dr. Bill Underwood (GTRI), digital archives research Prof. Leo Mark (Computing), atmospheric science data
curation
Data deposition/acquisition/ingest SIPs prepared by CABI graduate student / GT Research Data Librarian
Data curation and metadata management Collaborate on metadata guidelines, policies on access, retention, formats ,
etc.
Data protection (policies, tools, procedures) Chen (OIT), Baines (OIT Info. Security), Helms and Walters (Library), Corballis
(CABI)
Data discovery, access, use, dissemination Collaborate on portal design, descriptive metadata for expert and citizen use
Data interoperability, standards, integration Identify, develop, and use in-common ontologies, semantic frameworks, data
transfer and integration protocols between partners
Data evaluation, analysis, and visualization Build technical framework to incorporate researcher’s tools